Every story wants to be told in a distinct form.
The same event might inspire a marvellous novel, a terrible poem, or a tedious play.
Kaur Riismaa falling into this effusively poetical Estonian swamp while reading from his novel “Little Ferdinand” would definitely be boring in three acts. But as a video, well, see for yourself.
KAUR RIISMAA
- born in 1986 in Estonia
- focused on physical and psychological time and memory in his novels and poetry
- influenced by Boris Pasternak, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Haruki Murakami and that one author read yesterday
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Estonian Cultural Endowment prize for “Merimetsa” and “Journey to the End of Day”
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Winner of Tänapäev novel competition for “Blind Man’s Gardens”
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Nominee for European Union Literary Prize for novel “Little Ferdinand”